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For the first time, I'm getting the feeling that this could be the year the seat gets truly hot for Mike Scioscia.

Anaheim can't afford to get off to another lousy start. If they do, the baying hounds are going to start screaming for his blood again, and as great a manager as he is, I'm not sure if he can survive missing the playoffs for a fifth consecutive season.

Posnanski (in the process of ranking Pujols the 47th best player of all time) discusses at length how Pujols is one of those athletes who is motivated by "the doubters." Poz heavily implies that he therefore expects Pujols to do well this year. (The article is a good read.)

Pujols is 40th all-time in WAR (with .4 more than Kaline). The guys with fewer WAR than Pujols, in descending order of WAR, whom I expect to see above him on Poz' list (this doesn't include the handful of Negro Leaguers I'd also expect): B. Gibson, G. Brett, P. Martinez, P. Rose, J. DiMaggio, J. Bench, Y. Berra, S. Koufax

It might be (and probably is) because I've watched the Angels a ton this spring due to the new Dodgers TV deal, but I think I might be drinking the Angels kool-aid this season. I know it's only spring training, but they have been mashing lately and that Santiago kid looks better than anything they had in the back of the rotation last year.